Quotes About Culture

It's our roots that really give us our identity.

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.

What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.

I have a very strong identity that connects me to Argentina and to Latin America, but at the same time, I have a deep connection to the music from the United States and music from Europe, too.

One of the reasons why I created the podcast called the 'The Call-In' that we do through Array - because as a black artist, every time I sit down with mainstream media, I'm asked about issues of race, identity and culture. No one asked what they ask my white male counterparts, which is: 'Where do you like to put the camera?'

Since I knew my deaf identity since birth, it wasn't hard for me to be comfortable, confident, and independent in a hearing world.

The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world.

I abhor the rightwing Muslim ideology behind the veils, but I equally abhor the political rightwing xenophobes of Europe.

Film is carrying a lot of ideology. It's carrying an image. It's forging an image not only of the rest of the world, but also of yourself, you know.

'American Idiot' is not only one of my favorite albums of all time, it's become an anthem of a generation.

When I was in New York for 'White's Lies,' I saw 'American Idiot' and 'Hair.' I loved both of those.

Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'

I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'

The star system, the idol, the cult of personality is not the only way to be in entertainment.

We don't need American Idols. We need American icons. Icons of work.

If I could talk in only one language for the rest of my life, it'd be Tamil.

All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.

To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

Our culture is being shaped by trolls and the Holocaust deniers are a very extreme example of the trolls. Ignoring them has not worked. It doesn't mean that confronting them will work completely but I think it's a debate we have to have.